Two women have been charged with an offence under the Dangerous Dogs Act after a Merseyside pensioner was mauled to death by a dog.

Clifford Clarke, 79, died in the garden of his home in Richard Kelly Close last May.

Hayley Sulley, 29, of Swallowhurst Crescent, Norris Green and Della Woods, 29, of Richard Kelly Close, Clubmoor, have both been charged with being in charge of a dog, and allowing it to enter a place where it was not permitted to be, where it fatally injured Mr Clarke.

Both women have also been charged with three offences of causing unnecessary suffering to a dog.

They will appear at Liverpool Community Justice Centre on Tuesday, February 11.